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2 Seal Your Lips When we are trained to talk, And the trainers abandon us To internal affairs, We lose our heads in talking, And dead men don’t bite. The Demigods After the bang, the covenant, And from the Western deeps, Emerged the godheads, Omnipotent, omniscient, Dream of black Africa land. And each godhead a wand in hand Wrought his perpetual ‘Yes Lords’ Some meek, others mighty, To serve, and be served; But both the lord to serve. The wands heavy and mighty, Set the pace for the races, And each godhead Took the mark alone, And won the race in landslide. With each victory the wand stiffened, Destroying old loyalties, creating new ones And delighted in each case, we ululate, Hailing our democracy. ...

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